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Ed. Weinberger, Ed Asner

In “an unabashedly biased, deeply researched book” (SF Gate), Ed Asner—the actor who starred as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show—reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who think that they and only they know how to interpret it.Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat from the old days, figured that if the right-wing wackos are wrong about voter fraud, Obama’s death panels, and climate change, they are probably just as wrong a...

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Richard Wagner, Bernard da Costa

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Ed Asner, Full Cast

Adapted from the diaries of Richard Wagner, Beethoven’s music soars in the background as a poor young composer named Richard Wagner struggles toward Vienna to meet the composer he idealizes.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Allan Corduner, Arye Gross and Paul Mercier.©2010 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2010 L.A. Theatre Works

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Neale Donald Walsch

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Ellen Burstyn, Neale Donald Walsch, Ed Asner

All great truths begin as blasphemy.The time to challenge your most sacred beliefs is at hand.If you don't challenge your beliefs soon, your beliefs are going to challenge you.This audiobook is meant to be challenging.This audiobook is meant to save the world.Something extraordinary is about to happen on this planet.This audiobook contains an astonishing prediction. And that prediction comes from an astonishing source. Author Neale...

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Neale Donald Walsch

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Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn

The human race has reached a Time of Choosing. Our options are being placed before us by the tide of events -- and by those who are creating them. We can either move forward, building together at last a new world of peace and harmony based on new beliefs about God and Life, or move backward, separately and continuously reconstructing the old world of conflict and discord.The New Revelations provides us with the tools to move forward, to pull ourselves out of despair, liftin...

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Tony Barr

Learn how to adapt the craft of acting to the needs of the camera and how to make it in TV & film with this guide full of insights from pros in the field.Culled from Tony Barr's forty years of experience as a performer, director, and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera.This updated edition includes plenty of new exercises for honing on-camera s...

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Terry C Johnston

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Ed Asner

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Plainsmen

This historically accurate tale describes one of the worst military disasters ever suffered by the U.S. Army on the Great Plains.At the end of the Civil War, a tremendous stream of soldiers and settlers began moving westward along the Bozeman Trail, cutting deep into sacred Sioux hunting grounds. For Red Cloud and his warriors, a bloody fight to retain their ancestral homeland proved inevitable. Brash Captain William J. Fetterman leads his troops into battle with t...

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, David Fishelson

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Ed Asner, Full Cast

Dostoyevsky’s monumental novel The Idiot, adapted into a spellbinding full-cast drama by playwright David Fishelson.In The Idiot, meet the kindly, childlike Prince Myshkin, as he returns to the decadent social whirl of 1860s St. Petersburg. The two most beautiful, sought-after women in the town compete for his affections, in a duel that grows increasingly dangerous.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Angela Bettis, Arye Gross, Joh...

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William J. Bennett, Elayne Glover Bennett

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Ed Asner, Elayne Glover Bennett, Jenn Bennett, William J. Bennett, Claire Bloom, Barbara Bush, Janina Edwards, Dorian Hairwood, Charlton Heston, Kirby Heyborne, Dana Ivey, David Mccallum, Andrea Martin, Joe Morton, Leon Nixon, Kate Nelligan, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Robert Petkoff, Tonya Pinkins, Faith Prince, Tom Selleck, Matt Stango, Richard Thomas, Harriet Walter, Fritz Weaver, Eunice Wong, Michael York

Help your children develop moral character with this updated, 30th anniversary edition of the perennial classic The Book of Virtues.Almost 3 million copies of the Book of Virtues have been sold since it was published in 1993. It is one of the most popular moral primers ever written, an inspiring anthology that helps children understand and develop character—and helps parents teach it to them. Thirty years ago, readers thought that the tim...

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George S. Brooks, Walter Lister

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Ed Asner, Fred Savage, Full Cast

Commerce and heroism clash when a titan of American businessmen orchestrates a U.S. invasion of Mexico. This long-lost 1927 Broadway melodrama combines the crackling dialogue and riveting storytelling of the Front Page with Wag the Dog cynicism.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Raye Birk, Sharon Gless, Colette Kilroy, Rod McLachlan, Paul Murphy, Mark Adair Rios, Luis Saguar, Fred Savage and Jamey Sheridan.

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David Ives

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Ed Asner, Matthew Wolf, Full Cast

As a young Jewish man in 17th century Amsterdam, Baruch de Spinoza excelled as a theological student; but as he encountered free-thinking Protestants, atheists, and radicals in this relatively tolerant city, he began to question his religion and the nature of God. As a result, he was branded a heretic and faced excommunication.Includes an interview with Steven Nadler, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scan...

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Mame Hunt

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Ed Asner, Ella Joyce, Paul Winfield

Adapted directly from the actual transcripts by Mame Hunt, Unquestioned Integrity examines the notorious Senate Confirmation hearings when law professor Anita Hill charged Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Edward Asner as The SenatorElla Joyce as Professor HillPaul Winfield as Judge ThomasDirected by Roberta Levitow. Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Qu...

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George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Christopher Hart

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Ed Asner, Full Cast

It’s 1929 as The Jazz Singer hits the silver screen and the talkies promise to change movies forever. Enter three down-and-out vaudevillians who hatch a hare-brained scheme to “make it big” in Tinsel Town. Their plan? To open a voice academy for the witless stars of silent movies. The only things standing in their way are ditzy starlets and power-hungry movie moguls. Starring Ed Asner and directed by Moss Hart’s son, this is top-of-the-bill screwball comedy and Kaufman and Hart genius at i...